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Auctioned: household furnishings, bed clothes, paintings, childhood odds & ends of Greta Garbo; after seven years in storage; in Stockholm. On Garbo 's instructions, buyers were not told the stuff was hers. (Why? Answered the silent Swede's brother Sven, who engineered the auction: "I have found it best for me never to answer questions.") Total take: about $10,000. (Storage bill: $3,000.) Sample price: $8.35, for a crate full of Garbo dolls and doll furniture...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, willowy wife of Britain's Ambassador to France and once "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," was right in there with Greta Garbo, who got left $20,000 by a hermit last month. Lady Diana was left a fortune by a lovelorn Spanish grandee who had set eyes on her only twice. Big-nosed, big-mustached Count Manuel Antonio de Luzarraga saw her at a London ball more than 20 years ago; 15 years later he saw her again on the street. He had brightened the years between by writing her anonymous love letters. Scotland...
...hereby give my entire estate," ran the will of Edgar H. Donne, 70, who lived & died in a one-room shack on a barren Michigan farm, "to Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, screen actress, whose stage name is Greta Garbo, to her and no other." Neighbors recalled that Donne had once bought himself some new clothes and set out for Hollywood; after he got back he never talked about it. He once wrote Garbo a letter; it came back stamped "Refused." The local probate judge estimated that lonely Hermit Donne was worth about $20,000. Postscript to the will: "If Greta Garbo...
...recent years Flagg has feasted his eyes and practiced his art increasingly in Hollywood. Among his sitters: Greta Garbo ("I was immediately sunk; sunk to the eyebrows in adoration of this former Svenska barber shop assistant . . . the two of us paid scant attention to anybody else from that moment until midnight"); Hedy LaMarr ("She would be the only living woman I would forgive for not having full breasts"); and Joan Fontaine (she "has'everything...
Eugene O'Neill and Greta Garbo, dodge-the-press champions in the men's and women's divisions, briefly stopped dodging, met the press head on-but separately-in Manhattan...